Did Fethi Sellaouti attend the New York Education Transformation Summit?
The general secretary of the general union of secondary education under the Tunisian general union (UGTT), Lassâad Yaâcoubi, published a few days ago a post on social networks, in which he states that the Minister of Education, Fethi Sellaouti and his head of the staff have not yet returned from New York after attending the Education Transformation Summit that ended on September 19.
This publication has aroused strong reactions on the web and in the media. Newspapers and television channels broadcast information such as the Acharaâ Al Magharibi newspaper and the Attessia channel, and accusations were directed against the Minister of Education and his chief of staff.
Faced with the controversy raised by Lassâad Yaâcoubi’s post, the BN Check team verified the authenticity of this information. First, we looked into it the Summit program United Nations Global Agenda for Transforming Education. The Summit actually took place in New York on 16, 17 and 19 September 2022, but in the program, both in the photos and in the videos published by the Summit, the name of Minister Fethi Sellaouti was absent. The program can be verified This site. As for the attendees, you can see the attendees on the United Nations YouTube channel, which posted the speeches on the gage following.
Secondly, we contacted the press officer of the Ministry of Education, who categorically denied the Minister’s participation in the Summit. ” The education minister has not left the country. He participated in the start of the school year on September 15, participated in the Council of Ministers held at Palazzo Cartagine in the afternoon of September 15, and participated in the Councils of Ministers held last week under the presidency of the Head of Government. A team from the ministry attended the summit and traveled to New York for two days He told us.
The BN Check team has finally verified the visits and meetings made by the Minister last week. He gave an interview to Jawhara FM on September 16, 2022, then attended a ministerial council on September 17.
In the same context, and a few hours after the post was published, Lassâad Yaâcoubi deleted his post and no longer commented on the topic.
The Minister of Education Fethi Sellaouti therefore did not attend the Education Transformation Summit, and the rumors about his stay in New York despite the end of the summit are false.
MBZ
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